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UNITED SIATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST WM. SOHEUBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO MARY ZINN, OF SAMEPLACE.

STROF'PING-MACHINE.

srncrrr'cn'rron forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,825, datedNovember 8, 1898 Application filed June 12, 1898.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUST WM. SOHEUBER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county andState of New York, 5 have invented new and useful Improvements inStropping-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this device the blades of razors-as, for example,safety-razorscan be readily and efiectively stropped, as set forth inthe following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexeddrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of the stropper. Fig. 2 is asection along a; m, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are views like Fig. 2 withparts in different position than in said Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a sectionalong y y, Fig. 1.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use myinvention, I will now de scribe the same in detail, referring to thedrawings, wherein The numeral 1 indicates a supporting-frame having ahandle 2,which is made extensible, as hereinafter explained. Anoscillating or rocking bed 3 is mounted on a pivot or bearing 4,extending from the supporting-frame. A holder 5 is adapted to retain orhave slipped thereinto a blade 6 to be stropped. This blade-holder isactuated r swiveled by the bed. Such bed is provided with teeth 7,formed on the loop or rack 8, secured to and moving with the bed, saidteeth 7 engaging cogs 9, Fig. 5, on the shaft or sleeve 10, to which theblade-holder or its inner part 11, Fig. 1, is clamped or secured.

In Fig. 2 the bed 3 is shown in upright position with the blade-holderor blade over the bed turned upward. As the bed 3 is swung to one sideor another, Figs. 3 or 4, the gears 7 and 9 will move or rock theblade-holder and blade to one side or another from the central orvertical position.

Between the strop-bed 3 and blade-holder 5 the strop 12 can be inserted.This strop being suitably held taut and the machine run back and forth,the friction or contact of the strop on bed 3 will rock the latter backand forth, so that the holder 5, actuated by 50 the bed, alternatelycarries the opposite faces Serial No. 6833340; (No node.)

of the blade to the strop, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. The blade is thusproperly stropped.

* The plate 1 is shown provided with stropsustainers 14 or suitablerollers or sleeves 'ro tating on pins extending from the plate in frontand to the rear of the bed 3. The strop is sustained or kept by theserollers 14 smooth and in proper position.

When the parts are free or at rest, the bed 3 normally is in central orupright position or the holder or blade 6 is normally off the strop. Aspring 15 holds or returns the bed to central position. This spring issuitably applied-as, for example, by being sustained on the bearings ofthe sleeves l4 and said spring engages a lip or pins 16, Fig. 5, on bed3. The spring 15 pressing this lip or pins 16 up ward will raise or movebed 3 to central posi tion, as seen in Fig. 2.

The handle 2 can be made detachable or extensible in any suitable way,so that when not in use it can be moved out of the way to allow thedevice to be compactly stored.- In the drawings the plate 1 is shownwith tubes or guides 17 through which the handle 2 can be run in andout, as indicated by broken and full lines in Fig. 1.

The strop 12 can be prevented from slipping or running too far towardplate 1 by a suitable stop or shoulder (not shown) applied on base 3 oron the guides 14. The blade-holder,

it is seen, swivels about a fixed axis, but does not swing:

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a supportingframe, and a pivot or bearingextending horizontally therefrom, of an oscillating or rocking bedmounted on said pivot or bearing and over which the razor-strop passes,and an os- 0 cillating razor blade holder located above said oscillatingor rocking bed and operated by a part of the latter, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination with a supporting- 5 frame, and apivot or bearingextending hori zontally therefrom, of an oscillating or rocking bedmounted on said pivot or bearing and constructed with a loop havingrack-teeth,

said bed serving to support the razor-strop roe which passes thereover,and an oscillating razor-blade holder mounted in the supporting-frameand provided with a shaft having cogs or teeth with which the rack-teethof the loop of the oscillating or rocking bed engage, for oscillatingthe razor-blade holder when the bed is oscillated or rocked,substantially as described.

3. The combination with a supportingframe, and a pivot or bearingextending horizontally therefrom, of an oscillating bed mounted on thepivot and provided with a lateral pin 16 and a loop-shaped rack 8, anoscillating razor-blade holder having a shaft provided with cogs orteeth with which the loop shaped rack of the oscillating bed en= gages,bearings extending from the support ing-frame and provided with sleeves14, and a curved spring 15 secured at its ends to the bearings of saidsleeves and centrally between its ends bearing against the lateral pinof the oscillating bed substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

AUGUST VM. SCHEUBER. lVitnesses:

JEREMIAH REICHARD, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

